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US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft. Linwei Ding faces four counts of trade secret theft, each with a potential 10-year prison term.
Linwei Ding faces four counts of trade secret theft, each with a potential 10-year prison term.
On Wednesday, authorities arrested former Google software engineer Linwei Ding in Newark, California, on charges of stealing AI trade secrets from the company. Ding also founded and served as the chief executive of a separate China-based startup company that aspired to train "large AI models powered by supercomputing chips," according to the indictment. "We have strict safeguards to prevent the theft of our confidential commercial information and trade secrets," Google spokesperson José Castañeda told Ars Technica.
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